New York has become the first school district in the US to introduce cricket as a sport in public high schools. Most of the players in the New York City cricket league are from the West Indies, India or Pakistan, and the response has been better than expected. Read on in the New Zealand Herald.

Angus Armstrong, born and raised in the United States, has been playing cricket for around three years at Stuyvesant High School, before the league was introduced. He said the experience allows him to gain an insight into cultures of other nations where the sport is popular. "There's an entire international community out there that so many Americans don't know about," he said.